Cant-hook



(No Model.)

D. MORAN.

/ CANT HOOK. No. 893,384. Patented Nov. 2'7, 1888.

UNITED. STATES PATENT Erica.

DANIEL MORAN, OF DENTS RUN, PENNSYLVANIA.-

CANT-HOOK.

SPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,384, dated November 27, 1888.

Application filed September 10, 1887. Serial No. 249,345.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL MORAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Dcnts Run, in the county of Elk and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oant-Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has reference to a device for turning logs in the forest or yard, or on skids, floats, or saw-mill carriages, said device cornprising a lever-suspended hook, and is commonly known as a cant-hook.

The object of my invention is to improve the construction of the ordinary cant-hook, so that the clasp will be less liable to become worn away and permit the hook to drop down toward the pick, and whereby, if it should become worn away, as indicated, it may easily and quickly be restored to. perfect condition without the necessity of removing the clasp from the lever.

My invention is hereinafter described, and its features of novelty are specified in the claims at the end of this specification.

In the accompanying drawings, in which like features are indicated by like letters of reference in the several views, Figure 1 represents a top plan view of a cant-hook embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a cross-section through the line :0 x of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a detached view in perspective of the false Referring to the drawings, A indicates the lever, to the end of which the cant-hook dcviee is secured.

1?- indicates the metal socket, to which the end of the lever A is firmly affixed, and O indicates the pick suitably secured into the end of the lever.

The letter I) designates the clasp which receives and in which operates the swinging hook E.

The parts above indicated are the usual features of cant-hooks.

As ordinarily constructed the clasp D is in a single piece, of a form which provides for its ears to receive the end of the swinging hook and integral or otherwise with the socket B, and these parts are commonly made of castiron. The hook E is hinged in the clasp by means of a bolt, a, passing laterally through (No model.)

holes in the ears and held in position by a nut, 1). 1p these respects my invention does not differ from what already exists. To repair the device when thus constructed, it is C necessary to replace the clasp or the socket and its integral clasp by a new one, which is not only expensive but requires considerable time.

The wear upon the cant-hook is principally due to the hinged foot of the hook constantly striking upon the front wall of the clasp D, and when this part ofthe clasp becomes worn away sufficiently the hook will drop toward and in close contact with the pick in the end of the lever. XVhen the device is in this disabled condition, it is not only troublesome to the Woodsman or logfloater, as it is liable to catch into underbrush and the like, but is a dangerous instrument to handle.

To remedy the defect indicated,l furnish the clasp D'with a detachable false jaw, F, which is made of east-steel case-hardened. This false jaw is preferably of a form such as shown in Fig. 3, with a solid front sloping into a tongue, 0, and an open rear portion and bottom, and is adapted to be received by the ears of the clasp D; and it is preferably provided upon the extremities with side lugs, c, which fit into recesses in the ears of the clasp, as shown in Fig. 2. The falsejaw F is also provided with holes a, which, when said false jaw is in position between the ears of clasp D, coincide with the holes in the latter in order that bolt a, which supports the hook E, may pass through both sets of holes. The shoulder a, at the top of the solid front wall of false jaw F, receives the blows of the toe of the swinging hook when the latter falls forward.

In the device as thus constructed the blow of the toe of the swinging hook is not, as i111- plied, received upon the front wall of the clasp D, but is received upon the shoulder a of the solid front of the case-hardened steel false jaw, thus enabling the tool to last many times longer than tools of the ordinary construction; but when the false jaw does wear away upon the surface receiving the blow of the toe of the hook the structure is very easily and cheaply repaired by the person using the same. This is done by removing the bolt a, which secures the swinging hook within the clasp, (thus enabling the hook to be lifted out of the clasp,) and seating a suitable punch in front of the falsejaw F, which, when struck a slight blow, will force the same from its position between the ears of the clasp, when a new and perfect false jaw may be inserted within the clasp, thereby restoring the cant-hook to perfect condition and without the employmentofa skilled workman. The false jaw F will be made in quantities to be supplied to purchasers of my cant-hooks for the purpose of repairing worn and damaged tools, as occasion may require. The front wall of the clasp D upon its top surface is provided with a slight depression, (I, to facilitate the seating of the punch in displacing the false jaw, as above explained.

The clasp D can be made of east-iron, and hence will be quite inexpensive. It is unnecessary to make said clasp with a solid front, as shown, as a piece of strap-iron shaped to fit the lever, with its corners formed so as to receive and hold the detachable false jaw, will answer all practical purposes and give good results; but when the clasp is made with a solid front, as shown in the drawings, it is of course more durable. It 'will be understood that the tongue e of false jaw F is adapted to pass within socket B when the false jaw is placed in position. In the lever A, at the rear of clasp l). is inserted a bearingpin, a, upon which hook E is adapted to fall when thrown back.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. In a cant-hook, a clasp'provided with ears and a hard-metal false jaw removably secured between the ears of said clasp. in combination with a swinging hook pivoted to the clasp and cooperating with the false jaw, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a cant-hook, a clasp and a swinging hook pivoted within said clasp, combined with a detachable hard-metal false jaw held within the ears of said clasp and provided with lugs at its rear which fit within depressions in the walls of the clasp, substantially as set forth.

3. In a cant-hook, in combination, a socket, a clasp at the rear of said socket provided with cars, a swinging hook pivoted to the clasp, and a false jaw provided with a solid front terminating in a tongue, as c, said tongue passing within the socket, and the swinging hook coacting with the false jaw, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination, in a cant-hook, of a clasp havingadeprcssion in the top snrfaceof its front wall, with a hard-metal false jaw having a solid front wall and held within the ears of the clasp, substantially as set forth.

5. An attachment for cant-hooks, consisting of the hard-metal false jaw F, having an open rear end and bottom, and a solid front wall provided with a shoulder, as a, and a tongue, as e, substantially as set forth.

6. As an attachment to the clasp which receives the foot of the swinging hook of a cant hook, the hard-metal false jaw having a solid front wall and open at its rear end and provided with lateral lugs, substantially as herein shown and described.

Signed at l lmporium, in the county of Cameron and State of Pennsylvania, this 26th day of April, A. I). 1887.

DANIEL MORAN.

lVitnesses:

MICHAEL BRENNAN, D. S. llICDONALD. 

